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South Africa's British (1,000,000) are clustered in Natal and Cape Province. They are mostly city folks-traders, bankers and bus drivers who have exported a little bit of Britain to South Africa. Against the Boers' fervent nationalism they have no spiritual counterforce. So long as they are making money (as they are), British South Africans tend to sit back and sip their tea while the Boers make the politics. And in their hearts many of them agree with the Nationalists' persecution of the Negroes. "The Dutchmen can handle the coons" is a frequent British...
...Fervent Daniel Malan's divided nation has become a tense and uneasy place. His attempt to put his regime above the courts seemed certain of passage in Parliament, and is plainly a big step to committing South Africa to a one-party totalitarian state. It is no better for being done in God's name...
When they heard that the Boston Cinema Society was planning to show Birth of a Nation, members of the NAACP and the Equal Rights Society began addressing fervent protests to the City Censor and mumbling ominously about picket lines. Even though the film is a great cinema classic, it does present a rabidly Southern view of the Reconstruction era, and, after all, this would never...
...fervent keynote harangue of Dean C. David Foster (left), Baptist minister and Republican National Committeeman, set the convention at a high pitch which persisted through two hours of spirited speechmaking and balloting until Eisenhower's nomination shortly past 11 p.m. Foster was substituting for Indiana Representative Brownson, himself a replacment for the original choice, Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin of Maryland...
...wrote Evangelist Jim Nichols of Abilene, Texas, "the Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Catholics. Christian Reformists. Seventh-Day Adventists, Christian Church and scores of independent preachers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in preaching false doctrines from coast to coast over the air." Strapping young (24) Evangelist Nichols of the fervent and fast-growing Churches of Christ (10,000 congregations, 1,000,000 members) called on his denomination to put its own message...